KYOCERA SLD Laser Demonstrates High Power Blue Laser Diode Product Line its DataLightTM High Speed LiFi Communication System, a 2023 Prism Award Finalist, at The SPIE Photonics West Exhibition
KYOCERA SLD AT The SPIE Photonics West Exhibition
KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc. (KSLD), a world leader in the commercialisation of laser light sources, is introducing its new high-power 5-watt blue laser diode products for industrial, biomedical, defence and display applications at the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition from January 31 to February 2, 2023, in San Francisco, CA. From a press release statement on Businesswire, the company will showcase this new product line along with its new high brightness White/IR LaserLightTM SMD products, winner of the 2021 Prism Award. Additionally, KSLD will demonstrate its DataLightTM high-speed LiFi communication system, a 2023 Prism Award finalist, as well as its new innovations in high-efficiency laser diodes for AR/VR applications and efficient optical power transfer technology.
KSLD’s new high-power blue laser diode products deliver 5 watts of optical power at 445 nm and are based on KSLD’s proprietary high-gain semipolar GaN architecture. The product is available in a TO-can package or chip-on-submount, as well as a fibre-delivered configuration. The devices are ideally suited for integration into customer end systems in industrial marking, engraving for non-metals and organics such as resins, plastics, and printed circuit boards as well as in 3D printing and welding of metals such as copper for EV battery production where absorption is more than 10 times higher than for infrared lasers. High-power blue lasers also have a broad range of use in biomedical applications including dental, surgical, and dermatology where absorptions in haemoglobin and melanin are more than 5 times that of infrared lasers, as well as defence applications including avionics LiDARs and undersea communications. Additionally, high-power blue laser diodes are used in projection displays to excite RGB phosphors to replace lamps in portable projectors, home theatre, boardroom and education projectors, as well as large venues and cinemas. KSLD is also applying its high-gain Semipolar GaN innovation to develop highly efficient low-power red, green, and blue laser diodes to miniaturize, brighten, and reduce the power consumption of RGB laser beam scanning modules in for the emerging AR/VR market.
KSLD will also showcase its LaserLightTM SMD devices that deliver high-brightness white and infrared (IR) dual illumination for medical, machine vision, inspection, safety lighting, bioinstrumentation and other applications that require high-intensity spots or high-efficiency fiberoptic delivery of white light. The company will feature expanded IR wavelengths from 850 nm to 1000 nm and increased white light up to 1000 lumens to deliver high brightness, high visibility, and eye-safe illumination. Mobility applications include automotive, avionics, drones, railway, marine white light and IR night vision, range finding and flash LiDAR. Specialty lighting applications include portable flashlights and light bars, high-lumen spotlights for avionics, helicopter search & rescue and security applications, as well as entertainment and outdoor lighting. Until now, dual-emission white/IR sources have not been possible because LEDs and legacy lamp-based light sources cannot deliver high-brightness white and IR emission from the same point source, and they are incapable of being modulated at the high speeds required for accurate sensing and fast data rates.
To support the future of wireless connectivity, KSLD will display DataLightTM, the world’s first laser LiFi commercial development kit featuring a high-speed 1 Gbps, secure, RF-free, eye-safe bidirectional link. Laser LiFi is being adopted in mobility applications including car-to-x exterior, vehicle interiors, airplane cabins, undersea and space, defence and security, as well as future smart cities, healthcare, and smart factories. KSLD is pioneering LiFi innovations for future products and recently demonstrated a world-record performance of 100 Gbps. This product is a finalist for the 2023 Prism awards in the Laser category.
Beyond lighting, sensing, and communication, KSLD will demonstrate its innovative optical power transmission over fibre using its high-efficiency GaN laser diode and photodiode semiconductor chip technology. This significant advancement in the field of power transfer has the potential to replace heavy and sensitive metal wire harnesses in mobility and harsh-environment applications with a lightweight, noise-free optical solution, increasing the efficiency and extending the range of electric vehicles, airplanes, or satellites, while making them more secure and safe. This power-over-light solution can be configured to include optical data communications to deliver data and power to sensors in a distributed system in a vehicle or even in space, where radiation-hardened GaN-based semiconductors are ideally suited.
KYOCERA SLD Laser will host meetings in person at Photonics West 2023 in South Exhibition Hall Booth 1762 and virtually by appointment. To schedule an appointment, please contact Kristen Hanna at KHanna@KYOCERA-SLDLaser.com.
KYOCERA SLD
KYOCERA SLD Laser is pioneering the future of light. As stated on their website, new ideas are being harnessed to realise tomorrow’s product innovations.
The next generation of lighting has arrived, shining brighter and farther than ever before. In the last decade, LED enabled a new generation of lighting that changed everything. Now, LaserLight outshines the limits of LED to deliver safe, high-luminance white light from an incredibly small point source. LaserLight doesn’t just offer superior technology, it’s enabling entirely new opportunities.
KYOCERA SLD is commercialising revolutionary semi-polar GaN LaserLight for the next generation of display, automotive, and speciality applications. LaserLight sources are used directly in a single color and R-G-B applications or integrated into laser-pumped phosphor architectures.
As an independent spin-off from Soraa Inc, SLD Laser was founded in 2013 by several leading global pioneers in solid-state lighting, including Dr Shuji Nakamura, a 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics for his groundbreaking work with LEDs, Dr Steve Denbaars, Dr James Raring, and Dr Paul Rudy. Our laser technology incorporates a robust intellectual property portfolio of over 500 patents. SLD Laser was acquired by KYOCERA Corporation and has commenced operations as a Kyocera group company under the name KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
